Licensing of Titanium chaotic and unclear

If one of my contractors or vendors ever contacted one of my clients and asked for money I would drop them like a bad habit and never look back.

We cannot pull an App from the App Store and would never do that if we could. We are drafting a response. Please give us a few minutes to get something up on the Q&#38;A thread on our dev site.<p><a href="http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/142516/warning-licensing-of-titanium-chaotic-and-unclear-how-to-avoid-extortionate-fees" rel="nofollow">http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/142516/warning-li...</a><p>Jeff (CEO of Appcelerator).

the new "accepted answer" by jeff is a very very poor statement and makes me to never touch Titanium ever. the statement didn't answer any part of the question at all, and does nothing to clarify the situation. marketing speach par exellence.<p>if they debug their code the same way they debug their business processes than titanium would be the windows vista of mobile development frameworks.

I'm going to just say that I was never a fan of the way that Appcelerator handled their framework from a tooling standpoint. To create an app, you have to register it with them. It felt a bit creepy and unneeded if I wasn't going to use any of their other services.<p>I'm much happier using Phonegap, Knockout, and Kendo Mobile to build apps.

This sounds a bit fishy – how could Appcelerator even get an app pulled from the app store? DMCA?

Waited for the official answer. It's bad, there's no answer. As someone who started learning Titanium, this is really deal-breaker for me! Off to phonegap, xamarin, or native ...

Sounds like a rogue / poorly trained sales person trying to earn their commissions.

I have been using Titanium for about a year. My past painful experience tells me to never ever use Titanium again. It is buggy. Q &#38; A support sucks big time unless you pay for it. For any advanced project, you will absolutely need to develop custom IOS modules. It will save you so much time and headache to just use objective-C. (note: for simple projects, it might work for you)

Accepted Answer TL;DR:<p>[sorry] we will not charge for development that happens under the “App Explore” product (i.e., the free version). Usage of the Appcelerator platform (Titanium Mobile SDK, Titanium Studio, Analytics and Cloud Services) at this level is permitted for all applications, both commercial and free, with no financial obligation to Appcelerator. [sorry, we aren't transparent enough]

"Having previously dabbled with Titanium in the past it seemed like the right choice for rapid development and deployment of the app."<p>And that's where you made this a problem of your own making. :)<p>Anyone who uses these glorified WebView wrappers is doing themselves a disservice.

I bet he is using some elements that are licensed under a commercial license such as the appcelerator analytics and/or the enterprise element.<p><a href="http://www.appcelerator.com/plans-pricing" rel="nofollow">http://www.appcelerator.com/plans-pricing</a><p>It could also be that an appcelerator salesman was a bit aggressive on that front but I bet this is not the case - 99% of the time, people are breaching licenses without even knowing it.